A motor problem, not an absence of mind.
If you only model a person's challenges as cognitive, you will misread almost everything you see. The neuromotor framework starts with movement — and the rest finally begins to make sense.
Many nonspeaking and unreliably speaking autistic people experience a persistent gap between what their mind intends and what their body executes. Speech requires the most exquisite motor coordination in the human repertoire. When the motor planning system is disrupted, speech can be the first thing to go — and the last thing to come back.
Whole-body apraxia, in plain language
Apraxia is a planning problem, not an intelligence problem. What it looks like in daily life, why it shows up across the whole body, and why it is so often missed.
Read →The brain–body disconnect
When intention and action come apart — and what that means for assessment, education, and the messages we send children about what they 'can' and 'can't' do.
Read →Sensory regulation comes first
A dysregulated nervous system cannot reliably execute purposeful movement. Why regulation is part of the communication picture, not separate from it.
Read →Motor learning, fading, and independence
What 50 years of motor learning research tells us about how support changes over time — and why fading is a goal, not a verdict.
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